Evaluation of the ecological footprint due to anthropic presence Primary School Ripa Teatina and Torrevecchia Teatina - Italy

1. Evaluation of the ecological footprint
due to anthropic presence To grow a tree…
Primary School
Ripa Teatina and
Torrevecchia Teatina
Workshop
To grow a tree…

2. …with the help of an environmental educator…

3. Students have studied the variety of seeds and their
characteristics

4. Students have made a short excursion in the urban areas
of the country to pick up a collection sample of seeds

5. …then they went back to school to classify the seeds,
reflect and draw conclusions!
In class they classified the seeds according to the dispersion mode.

6. the aim was to verify how man has modified the environment
and has thus influenced biodiversity.

7. From the analysis we concluded
that in our territory
there are no more plants whose seeds are
dispersed by sticking to the hair of the mammals
because men, as the time went by,
has removed them from urban areas both
for health reasons (wild animals were carriers of
serious diseases) and security reasons.

8. As a result…

9. …plants that disperse their seeds
using mammals have disappeared,
while plants
that disperse their seeds
through birds
are very represented.